Tasha and Lex headed for the underground. It was about 5pm and the streets were beginning to get busy.
Although there were dozens of people lining the streets no one seemed to be in a particular rush to get anywhere. People just seemed to be taking their time, stopping every so often to chat to one another then moving on. It all seemed very friendly.
Lex and Tasha did what they could to blend into their surroundings by slowing their pace. Lex looked ahead to see a stunning red head walking directly towards him. He turned slightly making room for her to pass as she approached, but she too turned in the same direction.
He looked into her eyes to see that she was staring directly at him, with an odd expression on her face. She pretended to accidentally walk right into him, took a step back, apologised, stroked his crotch, whispered, 'call me,' into his ear and slipped a business card into his jeans pocket. Then she smiled and walked away.
Tasha watched in stunned silence. Lex turned to Tasha with his mouth wide open, also speechless. Eventually he managed a grin and mocked Tasha, 'why don't you ever do that to me honey?'
Tasha blushed and said, 'not if you were the last man alive!' Lex's ego took a real smack as he realised that she actually meant what she said.
She had started walking at a quicker pace towards the underground, and Lex grabbed her hand to slow her down. She yanked her hand abruptly out of his hold, and sneered, 'don't touch me!'
Lex stopped for a second and said, 'well slow down then, or they'll catch us out! Listen Tasha, I'm trying to help you here and all you keep doing is insulting me or driving me away, what is your problem?'
Tasha replied angrily, 'I don't like you, I've never liked you, and no matter how helpful you think you are going to be, I will never like you. You are nothing but a sexist pig, who is no better than the sad fucks living on this God forsaken planet. Deep down under all that suppressed emotion you are just like the rest of the men on this planet.'
Just then, a tall black man in a grey suit walking in the opposite direction to Tasha extended his right arm towards her. In his left hand he held a mobile phone to his ear. He seemed preoccupied with his telephone conversation. As he passed her, his right hand made contact with her breast, and he had a casual grope as he continued talking on the phone.
Tasha froze at the audacity of the stranger, and made a fist. Lex reacted quickly, 'at ease cadet!' he ordered, 'you might not like me, and I am certainly going off you, but Tom gave me an order to try to keep you alive, so you will do as I say. Stand at ease, now!'
Tasha didn't like his tone at all, and glared at Lex. He took a step towards her, and said quietly, 'remember I am still your commanding officer.'
'Command this!' she replied, punching him in the solar plexus, dropping him to his knees.
A winded Lex shook his head and looked up at Tasha. 'You spoilt angry little bitch! I could have helped you out here, we could have been friends, but if that's the way you want it, fine! From now on, you are on your own. Let's see just how far you get before you're attacked again! Fuck off, out of my sight, I can think of better ways of spending my time.'
Tasha took a deep breath, 'You really are pathetic, Lex.' She stormed off towards sign for the underground.
Lex recovered quickly and watched his companion, still wearing his baggy white shirt and his jeans disappear down the steps to the underground entrance. He looked round and wandered if anyone had paid any attention to their mini drama. From the corner of his eye he spotted a tall Slender Chinese woman staring directly at him. What made her stand out was that she was the only woman in the street not smiling. He blinked, and she was gone.
Lex thought about running into the nearest phone booth to call the redhead, but remembered John's orders about keeping the arrogant Tasha alive. After swearing, he made a dash for the underground.
At the bottom of the steps he was alarmed to find that the men and women were being separated into different queues. He approached the policeman directing the crowds. Lex asked him to explain the segregation.
'Where you been the last two months, Mars?' mocked the cop. 'We've had a bomb threat. We think it's the Woman Against Rape (WAR) activists, planning another attack. This time we aint takin' any chances. Every woman gets a thorough search,' he winked at Lex, 'a very thorough search, know what I mean?'
Lex nodded and stood in line, waiting to go past the metal detectors. The men were passing through without being checked, and in the distance he could see Tasha waiting her turn.
Moments later he found himself going through a detector at the same time as Tasha. The guard waved him on, but signalled Tasha to stop while he finished searching the woman in front.
'Hurry up Bob, the queues are getting too long!' shouted a supervisor at the guard. The guard nodded and started looking around. He caught Lex's eye and beckoned him over. 'Sir, if you don't mind could you please help me?’ The guard pointed at Tasha, ‘could you frisk that one? If she gives you any trouble let me know and I’ll see to her personally.’
Lex nodded and approached Tasha. She couldn’t hide the rage in her eyes, and whispered, ‘you just couldn’t help yourself, eh?’
Lex cleared his throat and instructed Tasha in a loud and formal voice, ‘Ma’am please raise your arms above your head.’ In a whispered voice he added, ‘Tasha, do it, or they’ll lock you up! This isn’t a game!’
Tasha raised her arms slowly, and hissed, ‘If I ever get you alone, I’m going to scratch your eyes out, mother fucker.’
‘Promises, promises!’ replied Lex, starting to lightly dab Tasha’s jeans around the thigh.
‘Not like that, Sir,’ criticised the guard, ‘you’ve got to apply a lot more pressure, like this.’ He demonstrated by groping the woman that he was frisking. The guard kneaded her breasts and then groped the smiling woman’s back side.
Lex nodded and knowing that the guard was still watching him started to stroke Tasha’s thighs in firm strokes. Lex’s hand reached up inside her thigh and stopped at her crotch. He stared up at the glaring Tasha, smiled and started rubbing her jean covered pussy. ‘That’s for punching me!’ he said quietly.
The guard looked over again, and said, ‘That’s it. You’ve got the right idea!’
Tasha said nothing as Lex stood up in front of her and started to fondle her breasts. ‘You look so sexy in my shirt. He stroked her shoulders, and then his hands made their way down do her breasts.’
Still she said nothing, but he felt her breathing quicken through his groping. ‘My, my Tasha, I had not idea your tits were so large, what are they 36C? You keep them so well covered, I would never have guessed. Granted, they are no way near as spectacular as Deana’s but still they are quite impressive to the touch!’
Tasha’s face reddened even more, ‘Lex, I will kill you, do you understand?’
Lex replied, ‘you still don’t get it, do you?’ If it wasn’t me doing this it would be a complete stranger. The first thing you would do is lash out, and end up in prison. You might hate me, and to be honest, I really don’t like you very much either, but when will you understand, I am only trying to keep you out of trouble.’
Tasha looked down and added, ‘by rubbing my tits?’
Lex feeling slightly embarrassed, removed his hands from her shirt and looked over at the guard. ‘She’s clean!’
The guard nodded and waved them both on.
Tasha stormed off towards the train platform, chased by Lex. ‘Ok you sick pervert, you can accompany me as far as my apartment, after that, we go our separate ways. If I ever see Commander Tom again I will let him know that you did your best to keep me alive, are we clear?’
‘Clear,’ replied Lex, catching up with Tasha.
The train carriage filled to capacity before the doors closed and they hurtled along the underground tunnel at high speed. Tasha had made this trip hundreds of times and knew the next stop, her stop, was exactly an eight minute journey.
